http://calitreview.com An arts and culture magazine. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://calitreview.com/23163 http://calitreview.com/23163#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:46:06 +0000 Peter Bridges http://calitreview.com/?p=23163 Foreign Affairs the following year, laid out for policy-makers, and then for the American public, the true nature of Stalinism and Soviet policy at a time when some still took a benevolent view of our wartime Soviet ally.]]> http://calitreview.com/23163/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/21392 http://calitreview.com/21392#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:00:06 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=21392 http://calitreview.com/21392/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/21288 http://calitreview.com/21288#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:07:35 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=21288 The Great Sea, has everything a major work of history requires. An important theme, solid research, magnificent writing and a perceptive insight into human nature figure prominently in the pages of his study of the body of water that the Romans called mare nostrum, "our sea."]]> http://calitreview.com/21288/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/20760 http://calitreview.com/20760#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:00:06 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=20760 http://calitreview.com/20760/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/19530 http://calitreview.com/19530#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:45 +0000 Holly Hunt http://calitreview.com/?p=19530 http://calitreview.com/19530/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/19419 http://calitreview.com/19419#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:01:07 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=19419 http://calitreview.com/19419/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/17357 http://calitreview.com/17357#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:45:29 +0000 Jeff McMillan http://calitreview.com/?p=17357 http://calitreview.com/17357/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/15694 http://calitreview.com/15694#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 19:14:09 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=15694 http://calitreview.com/15694/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/14792 http://calitreview.com/14792#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:26:50 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=14792 http://calitreview.com/14792/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/14602 http://calitreview.com/14602#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:46:09 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=14602 http://calitreview.com/14602/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/13978 http://calitreview.com/13978#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:00:14 +0000 Sam Stowe http://calitreview.com/?p=13978 Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War enthusiasts and other American history buffs. It contains the power to astonish modern readers with its lofty rhetoric, constant editorializing in news stories and decisions on what was important to its audience. Those decisions are, in many cases, not what a modern newspaper would choose.]]> http://calitreview.com/13978/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13743 http://calitreview.com/13743#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:00:36 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=13743 http://calitreview.com/13743/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13701 http://calitreview.com/13701#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:32:05 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=13701 The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by prisoners of war. In due fashion this week's Listicle salutes the soldier in film. From comedy to adventure to stark, sobering drama, soldiers have faced a great deal on the movie screen.]]> http://calitreview.com/13701/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13532 http://calitreview.com/13532#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:00:32 +0000 Sam Stowe http://calitreview.com/?p=13532 The Big Policeman, shows us what it took to bring some degree of order and safety to New York City's streets in the Gilded Age. And he's scrupulously fair to Byrnes, whose bare-knuckled approach to his job would never be acceptable to most modern Americans. He was a man of his age and, somewhat ironically, a cop who would introduce many of the basic techniques that almost all current law enforcement agencies still use.]]> http://calitreview.com/13532/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/12067 http://calitreview.com/12067#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:35:59 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=12067 http://calitreview.com/12067/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/11499 http://calitreview.com/11499#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:38:30 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=11499 http://calitreview.com/11499/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/9956 http://calitreview.com/9956#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:22:32 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=9956 http://calitreview.com/9956/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/9704 http://calitreview.com/9704#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:08:13 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=9704 http://calitreview.com/9704/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/9387 http://calitreview.com/9387#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:56:26 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=9387 http://calitreview.com/9387/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/8257 http://calitreview.com/8257#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:18:59 +0000 Katherine Tomlinson http://calitreview.com/?p=8257 New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg did with his interpreter Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, and we can’t help but think the conversations were nothing more than a way for Gallagher to pass the time.]]> http://calitreview.com/8257/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/7665 http://calitreview.com/7665#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:38 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=7665 http://calitreview.com/7665/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/7413 http://calitreview.com/7413#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:52 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=7413 Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what people in authority are up to. Rather, it attempts the trickier task of explaining why a set of conspiracy theories do not hold water on close examination, and accounting for how they differ from traditional historical explanations - what is specifically “conspiracist” about them.]]> http://calitreview.com/7413/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5837 http://calitreview.com/5837#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:52:56 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=5837 http://calitreview.com/5837/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5743 http://calitreview.com/5743#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:49 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=5743 The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, I have the sneaky suspicion that there's not much love lost for George Bush, either.]]> http://calitreview.com/5743/feed 23 http://calitreview.com/5636 http://calitreview.com/5636#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:59 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=5636 http://calitreview.com/5636/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/5212 http://calitreview.com/5212#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:41 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=5212 http://calitreview.com/5212/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5017 http://calitreview.com/5017#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:12 +0000 Peter Bridges http://calitreview.com/?p=5017 http://calitreview.com/5017/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/4865 http://calitreview.com/4865#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=4865 Life Magazine, listening to President Roosevelt's Fireside Chats on the radio, following the home team in the still vigorous daily newspapers, these rituals of daily life were the principal means of keeping faith in America's future, of believing that the only thing to fear was fear itself.]]> http://calitreview.com/4865/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4854 http://calitreview.com/4854#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:08:28 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com/?p=4854 http://calitreview.com/4854/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/4828 http://calitreview.com/4828#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=4828 http://calitreview.com/4828/feed 0